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A school is both the educational institution and building designed to provide learning spaces and learning environments for the teaching of students under the direction of teachers. Most countries have systems of formal education, which is sometimes compulsory. In these systems, students progress through a series of schools that can be built and operated by both government and private organization. The names for these schools vary by country (discussed in the Regional terms section below) but generally include primary school for young children and secondary school for teenagers who have completed primary education. An institution where higher education is taught is commonly called a university college or university.

In addition to these core schools, students in a given country may also attend schools before and after primary (elementary in the U.S.) and secondary (middle school in the U.S.) education. Kindergarten or preschool provide some schooling to very young children (typically ages 3–5). University, vocational school, college or seminary may be available after secondary school. A school may be dedicated to one particular field, such as a school of economics or dance. Alternative schools may provide nontraditional curriculum and methods. (Full article...)

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Harvard Girl (full title Harvard Girl Liu Yiting: A Character Training Record; Chinese: 哈佛女孩刘亦婷：素质培养纪实; pinyin: Hāfó Nǚhái Liú Yìtíng: sùzhì péixùn jìshí) is a book written by Liu Weihua (刘卫华) and Zhang Xinwu (张欣武), which describes how they raised their daughter, Liu Yiting (刘亦婷), to be accepted to Harvard University.

Published in 2000 in Chinese by the Writers Publishing House, the book details the rigorous lifestyle that Liu led and includes advice from Liu's parents on how to raise children to gain acceptance to top-tier universities; it has been described as a "manual" for child-rearing and early education. (Full article...)

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Stonyhurst College is an independent, Roman Catholic school in the Jesuit tradition located in rural Lancashire, England. Founded in 1593, Stonyhurst has a long-standing literary tradition. Former pupil Sir Arthur Conan Doyle modelled "Baskerville Hall" on Stonyhurst Hall, and named Sherlock Holmes' nemesis, Moriarty, after a fellow pupil. J.R.R. Tolkien wrote part of the Lord of the Rings in a classroom on the Upper Gallery during his stay at the College.

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1823 – Raffles Institution, the oldest school in Singapore, is founded by Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles.

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1987 – In Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania rules against the Dover Area School District, holding that teaching intelligent design in public school biology classes violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

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1857 – Britain calls on the schoolboys of La Martiniere Lucknow to aid in the residency's defence during the Indian Rebellion of 1857. Because of their contributions, La Martiniere Lucknow is the only school in the world to have been awarded royal battle honours

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... that in 1973, Margaret Thatcher temporarily saved the Strand Grammar School (pictured), famous for its contribution of young men to the British Civil Service, from closure?

... that Norwegians built Gibraltar District School No. 2 in Wisconsin in the 1860s?

... that Daniel and Lucy Lindley founded Inanda Seminary School to ensure that schoolboys in South Africa would not have to marry "naked girls"?

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Mary Jane McLeod Bethune (née McLeod; July 10, 1875 – May 18, 1955) was an American educator, philanthropist, humanitarian, womanist, and civil rights activist. Bethune founded the National Council of Negro Women in 1935, established the organization's flagship journal Aframerican Women's Journal, and presided as president or leader for a myriad of African American women's organizations including the National Association for Colored Women and the National Youth Administration's Negro Division.

She also was appointed as a national advisor to president Franklin D. Roosevelt, whom she worked with to create the Federal Council on Colored Affairs, also known as the Black Cabinet. She is well-known for starting a private school for African-American students in Daytona Beach, Florida. It later continued to develop as Bethune-Cookman University. She was the sole African American woman officially a part of the US delegation that created the United Nations charter, and she held a leadership position for the American Women's Voluntary Services founded by Alice Throckmorton McLean. For her lifetime of activism, she was deemed "acknowledged First Lady of Negro America" by Ebony magazine in April 1949 and was known by the Black Press as the "Female Booker T. Washington". She was known as "The First Lady of The Struggle" because of her commitment to promote better lives for African Americans. (Full article...)

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... that Silas Farley rejected a Harvard University full scholarship to pursue a career in ballet?
... that Blanche Zacharie de Baralt was the University of Havana's first woman philosophy graduate and the first person to translate Tagore's poems into Spanish?
... that at the age of 27 New Zealand entrepreneur Jamie Beaton had degrees from Harvard, Stanford, Oxford, and Tsinghua University, and was working on his seventh degree, from Yale?
... that Brea Beal received her first college basketball scholarship offer in sixth grade?
... that among the traditions of the University of Texas at Arlington are bed racing and oozeball?
... that the solar panels of Canyon View High School provide shade from the Arizona heat and provide 20 percent of the school's energy?
... that the Madrasa Ghaziuddin Khan is one of the few surviving madrasas dating from the Mughal Empire, and the oldest continuing school in Delhi, India?
... that professor Ruth Ann Davis made the largest-ever single contribution to Potomac State College of West Virginia University to support nursing scholarships in memory of her mother?

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Image 1Educational institution of this type in Canton, Michigan, United States (from Vocational school)
Image 2Birkbeck, University of London (from College)
Image 3Saint Anselm College (from College)
Image 4Students in a carpentry trade school learning woodworking skills, c. 1920 (from Vocational school)
Image 5Seinäjoki College in Seinäjoki, South Ostrobothnia, Finland, in May 2018 (from College)
Image 6Percentage of Students Taking Distance Courses (2012-2015) (from Online school)
Image 7Loyola School, Chennai, India – run by the Catholic Diocese of Madras. Christian missionaries played a pivotal role in establishing modern schools in India. (from School)
Image 8Braude College of Engineering (from College)
Image 9Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, one of the oldest liberal arts colleges in the United States (from College)
Image 10A school entrance building in Australia (from School)
Image 11A school building in Kannur, India (from School)
Image 12A madrasah in the Gambia (from School)
Image 13City College of New York (from College)
Image 14One-room school in 1935, Alabama (from School)
Image 15Plato's academy, mosaic from Pompeii (from School)
Image 16A high school building in Argos, Greece (from School)
Image 17Parliament Square, Trinity College Dublin in Ireland (from College)
Image 18A staged example of an online classroom using Jitsi. The teacher is sharing their screen. (from School)
Image 19György Dózsa Vocational Secondary School, Kalocsa, Hungary (from Vocational school)
Image 20West Park Secondary School in Toronto is an example. It was built in 1968 for students with slow learning or special needs. (from Vocational school)
Image 21Ambachtschool (from Vocational school)
Image 22SUNY Purchase College (from College)
Image 23The University of Cambridge (founded in 1209) and many other universities were founded during the Middle Ages. (from History of education)
Image 24Oberlin Conservatory of Music at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio (from Music school)
Image 25Based around Notre-Dame de Paris, the Notre-Dame school was an important centre of polyphonic music. (from Music school)
Image 26King's College London in 1831, as engraved by J. C. Carter. It is one of the founding institutions of University of London, established in 1836. (from History of education)
Image 27Royal College Colombo, a boys' school located in Colombo, Sri Lanka (from College)
Image 28St Patricks Primary school at Murrumbeena in Victoria, Australia (from History of education)
Image 29Dongping County Vocational Secondary School, China (from Vocational school)
Image 30St John's College, Johannesburg, a boys' school in South Africa (from College)
Image 31Albert Bettannier's 1887 painting La Tache noire depicts a child being taught about the "lost" province of Alsace-Lorraine in the aftermath of the Franco-Prussian War – an example of how European schools were often used in order to inoculate Nationalism in their pupils. (from School)
Image 32Jacobs School of Music, part of Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, has over 1,600 students. (from Music school)
Image 33Mental Calculations. In the school of SRachinsky by Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky. 1895. (from History of education)
Image 34The Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee is the oldest technical institution in Asia. (from College)
Image 35The Abbey of Cluny (from History of education)
Image 36Graduates of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory in Russia include Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Sergey Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich, and George Balanchine. (from Music school)
Image 37The "red siminar", a college building pictured in the coat of arms of Nuuk, the capital city of Greenland (from College)
Image 38Bowdoin College (from College)
Image 39King's College London, established by a Royal Charter in 1829, is one of the founding colleges of the University of London. (from College)
Image 40Scripps College (from College)
Image 41The University of Otago in New Zealand (from College)
Image 42Vocational school in Lappajärvi, Finland (from Vocational school)
Image 43Pomona College (from College)
Image 44To curtail violence, some schools have added CCTV surveillance cameras. This is especially common in schools with gang activity or violence. (from School)
Image 45Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland (from Music school)
Image 46World map indicating Education Index (2007/2008 Human Development Report)
- 0.950 and over
- 0.900–0.949
- 0.850–0.899
- 0.800–0.849
- 0.750–0.799
- 0.700–0.749
- 0.650–0.699
- 0.600–0.649
- 0.550–0.599
- 0.500–0.549
- 0.450–0.499
- 0.400–0.449
- 0.350–0.399
- under 0.350
- not available
(from History of education)
Image 47A staged example of an online classroom using Jitsi. The teacher is sharing their screen. (from Online school)
Image 48Corpus Christi College, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge in England (from College)
Image 49Agnes Scott College (from College)
Image 50First primary school in Nigeria, built in 1845 (from School)
Image 51Number of Students Taking Distance Courses by Level (2012-2015) (from Online school)
Image 52Vrapice Vocational School, Czech Republic (from Vocational school)
Image 53Diploma of secondary vocational education in Russia (from Vocational school)
Image 54RAJUK Uttara Model College, located in the northern suburb of Uttara in the capital Dhaka (from College)
Image 55Mental calculations. In the school of S. Rachinsky by Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky. Russia, 1895. (from School)
Image 56Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, one of the world's most elite conservatories (from Music school)
Image 57Scotch College, Melbourne, an independent secondary school in Australia (from College)

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